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Show "ie, Sir," and "o. Ma'am." Onob) onctlioinstidillons of Uie past are being snatched away from us. The oil fashioned girland tho old fashioned boy, who were taught to remain standing whllo their elders were sealed, have given way to the pert miss and noly youth, who exact that their mothers ana fathers shall get up an 1 give their seats to thcni Instead. The adage "1o be seen and not heard" has given way to the exaction that IBn.aU are not to hear themselves thluk when their charming children chil-dren are present. Itevercnce has given way to familiarity, and the children now boss their elders. In order to contlrni this new regime the lady principals of our most approved board log-schools and seminaries of San PraucIco unite in teaching tho young ladles under their Instruction to omit all the expressions ex-pressions of respect, which b) accident acci-dent some old fashioned mother "or grindniotherhas taught them, fcuch terms as ' -511V and "Jla'aml" mul be eliminated, from their vocabulary. vo-cabulary. This is the latest fad, aud will doubtless bs caf to a-qulre. Alieadytome mothers are taking It up, and utter)) refuse to allow their )uungsters even to learn the oI-jectionable oI-jectionable expression The result is that a rude Ye"' or "Io!" falls from the lips of the child already disinclined dis-inclined to resist all efforts at learning learn-ing manners. Ilis-aqutstioii if we arciiotproresiogtoofasL Seullity and deferences are not ynouymous terms. English customs do n3t ripply rip-ply to Amcrtt-a. While the prccei-trcssof prccei-trcssof tlio )Oung ladles' seminar) takes the vieur that her pupils are members of thtfarMocrac), and the terra" "Sir"' and "jriidain"' l-elong to the lauguage of the lower classes, she forgeis possibly that a Utile discrimination dis-crimination would 1 0 a much higher mark of hcrablllt) as an instructor. hen to say ""sir" anil "ila'am" would be much more to tlio poiut tlian to iguore these terms altogether tliau to bauUli them from the Language. Anv system of education educa-tion which ignores the quality of deference and nspect to parcnU b as "asoundlug briss and a tiukling c) uibal." Tho other eve ulug there wasavtarmdebauioathlssubject in a certain household, where a gradu ate of one of tli-sd im-tltutlons held to the opinion tliat her preceptress was authority iu the matter, and that the deference to parents and old age was now regarded iu youthful youth-ful aud 3rb.iaer.1Jlc circles as ridlcu-lou; ridlcu-lou; as would be -a gnrgovle on a Doric column hi. |